The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-03-05
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rLhNlUS JOSEPHUS mas Doen appointed 10
postmastership in Maine.
ONE county in Missouri produced $50, 900
worth OF castor oil last year.
AN Icelander is in Washington Territory
looking for place to locate colony.
SHOES made of rice straw are worn by the
aborlng people in the south of China.
GAS and coal have been discovered in
good quantities near Ossawotamie, Kan.
THE remains of Baltimore editor were
sold for ten dollars to medical college.
1T is rumored that Secretary Bayard will
soon participate in wedding ceremony.
A BROOKLYN alderman is accused of
wearing bit of plate-glass as diamond.
THE city council of St. Louis has fixed
eight hours as legal work day for city
laborers.
A FIRM of Observation-Disclosures are
about to establish vast flower plantation
in Florida.
A PHYSICIAN says: "If child does not
thrive on fresh milk, boil it," This is too
severe on the child
ASPHALT has been discovered in Morgan
County, Ala. 1t is the only known deposit
in the United States
Mrs. MARGARET j. PRESTON, the we'll
known Southern writer, is threatened
with total blindness.
THE Great Eastern, which cost at her
completion in 1859, 100000, has been sold
at auction for $4,000.
IT is generally conceded that if France
and Germany fight, Russia will walk of
with good slice Of pie.
The average age of those who enter col
lege in this country is seventeen. A cen.
tury ago it was fourteen.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL is advocating the
emigration of unmarried women from
England to the British colonies.
THE rolling mills throughout Western
pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio are crowd
ed with orders for several weeks.
The Colorado supreme court has decided
that women can not act as notaries publ,
in that State under existing laws.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is of the opinion thai
we should first obtain guns, and then the
matter Of Notifications might be consid.
cred
MAJOR BEN: PERLEY PooRE tells ''Gath''
that every President who called an extra
session of Congress failed to get renomi
mated.
Tue indications are that the railroads
viii soon be tumbling over one another IN
their eagerness to bounce the deadly stove
from their cars.
IT is stated that the Car of Russia Sc.
crctly visited Paris and had an interview
with President Grevy, recently. He trav-
eled in disguise.
SERGEANT SMITH, of Richmond, Va, has
been fined $50 for permitting more persons
to witness the execution of Cluverius
than allowed by law.
ST. PAUL and Minneapolis are fighting
for the State Capital. The latter city in.
tends offering a site and building costing
&,OO0,00O to the State free.
GOVERNOR DAVIS, the new Senator-elect
from Minnesota, is much younger man
than Ben Butler, but almost his exact
counterpart in appearance.
PROF. ALEXANDER declares that he has
sounded the extinct crater near the leper
settlement at Molokai, and line $500 feet
long remained taut and failed to reach the
bottom
A GIRL has just been arrested in New
York for stealing the watch and jewelry OF
friend, and the fact was that she had
pawned them to get money to bury her
mother.
Miss CARRIE DUKE, the daughter Of the
famous Confederate General, Basil Duke
is wonderful player on the violin, and is
now entertaining her friends at the Ma
tional Capital.
The abolition Of the free pass system BY
the railroads will, it is said, be feature
of the enforcement of the Interstate com
MERGE law, over which strong legal ques
ton will be raised.
THE library of George Washington, pur
chased in 1S4S at a cost of 5000, is one Of
the many interesting collections which
have come into the possession of the Bos
ton Atheneum Library.
PRINCESS CoLoNNA, the daughter of Mrs
j. w. Mackay, is to accompany her hus
band to this country in the spring. He i.
coming over to look after his railroad in
terests in Mexico and Texas.
A WESTERN man sent in to an editor al
item to the effect that his fortieth weddins
anniversary would be observed on a Ger
tain day, but heprinter inadvertently lef
out the word anniversary"
JOHN c. CALHOUN, of South Carolina
grandson of the great nnllifier, has the sec
| ond largest cotton field in the United
States He was a Captain in the Confed
crate service at eighteen and is now forty
| one.
Mr.. CHAs. GALLOWAY, of Winchester, Va.
was so overcome by the receipt of tele
gram that she dropped dead. Had sh,
waited to open it she would simply ha "
found that her sister was coming on
visit.
THE Treasury Department decides tina
finished photographs from negatives takel
! for citizens of the United States while Wis
iting the Canadian side of Niagara Fall
must pay duty when sent to the purchas
ers in this country.
Two men who were in Lincoln's Cabine
still live. One is Hannibal Hamlin, VIII
acted as his Vice President, and who
very happy among his books and trou
streams in Maine, and the other il Simo
Cameron, who is now in the Bermudas TO
his health.
A DAKOTA woman in the Upper Jane
Valley decided that she wanted a fu
cloak. She began trapping mink and tan
ming the skins. These she sent to st. Pau
where they have just been made into
| heantifnl cloak for which sha ,una offa,